brick

brick
brick1 W3S2 [brık] n
[Date: 1400-1500; : French; Origin: brique, from Middle Dutch bricke]
1.) [U and C]
a hard block of baked clay used for building walls, houses etc
▪ a brick wall
▪ a house made of brick
▪ Protesters attacked the police with stones and bricks.
2.) bricks and mortar
houses - used especially when talking about them as an ↑investment
3.) BrE
a small square block of wood, plastic etc used as a toy
4.) old-fashioned a good person who you can depend on when you are in trouble
→be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall at ↑head1 (31), drop a brick at ↑drop1 (27)
brick 2
brick2 v
brick off [brick sth<=>off] phr v
to separate an area from a larger area by building a wall of bricks
▪ Some of the rooms had been bricked off.
brick up/in [brick sth<=>up/in] phr v
to fill or close a space by building a wall of bricks in it
▪ The windows were bricked up.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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